1. The buy-in at Baylor.

Unlike some other names that were mentioned for the Baylor job, Matt Rhule had no real connections to the school or the state of Texas. He's still made some important strides going into Saturday's spring game at McLane Stadium -- from salvaging the 2017 recruiting class to bringing stability and even seeing significant buy-in from players who have experienced way too much turmoil. "I think it's extremely high," Rhule said. "I haven't had any real issue. I think the kids that were looking for something ... anything. It doesn't mean they liked us better than what was going on in the past. It was just the situation they were in. I think we have a special group of coaches who do a really good job of getting to know the kids on a very personal level. When you know someone cares about you, there's more buy-in."

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2. About that baked cake ...

You remember that Charlie Strong, both before and after his departure from Texas, was pretty clear about the prospects for 2017. The cake was baked, Strong said, and just needed to be iced, a reference to the young talent on hand. Yeah, it was pretty much Strong's backdoor way of praising his program building. New coach Tom Herman isn't quite as certain about this dessert being ready to serve. Look at it as playing the expectations game from a different side. Appearing on Houston's 790 AM on Thursday, Herman mentioned his biggest surprise since arriving in Austin. "I'd heard about these back-to-back top 10 recruiting classes," Herman said, "and I was surprised that there was not as much depth here as there would seem to be with two ballyhooed recruiting classes in back-to-back years." Sounds like something is headed back to the oven.

3. Missing thosesatellite camps.

Michigan's Jim Harbaugh might have turned satellite camps into a hot-button issue. He's not only one who saw it as a useful tool. You can add Texas Tech to the schools unhappy with new NCAA reform rules that limit camps now to campuses. "Obviously, there has been an advantage to us to get into the Dallas-Fort Worth and the Houston markets with satellite camps, that now we're not going to be afforded the opportunity to do that," Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. "That was one that, while I understand the rationale behind the legislation, will have a less than positive effect on Texas Tech."